“It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.” PeopleCountryHardDreamBigsAmericaHard WorkExtraordinaryAppealsPullingPresidencyBootstraps Author:Ron Fournier
“Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.” IfsWantGivingShouldCountryHardAbleCriticismAlbumsHard TimesBlessGetting OldGod BlessAgeism Author:Guy Oseary
“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.” WritingYearsWellsCountryHardTogetherGuyFoundMusicianIncrediblesProducersThis GuyReally CoolFranklin Author:Sasha Pieterse
“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.” PeopleFirstsCountryHardUsedFatherIndividualPresidentIslamAfrican AmericanHostilityAntagonismAmerican PresidentWorking Very Hard Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.” CountryHardGovernmentCertainLevelsSpendingAccustomedGovernment SpendingRatchets Author:Mike Lee
“It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.” MeanCountryHardAudienceGoes OnHip HopHipsHopsSean Author:Al Franken
“All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.” PeopleCountryHardAnimalMy FriendsCatTreatedDevelopingDeveloping Countries Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.” PeopleFeelsBelieveIdeasCountryHardChristianAmericaPresidentTakenGreaterFourWillingOne DayEqualGods WillFortyEstablishmentEntitledPersecutionPersecuted Author:Jon Stewart
“Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.” BookCountryHardNamesBabyLibraryOther CountriesNew Books Author:George R. R. Martin
“It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.” PeopleWorldLongCountryHardCharacterSpiritInspiredDrivingCanadaDevotedGreat CountryMarching OnBumpy Roads Author:Stompin' Tom Connors
“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.” WayKindCountryHardAmericaSpeakEuropePressureIncrediblesOur CountryJapanSuperstar Author:Narada Michael Walden
“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.” WorldTryingCountryHardPoorStudyRichTakenLuxuryGatesExpensesConsumerismBosomsAbrahamOverconsumptionDestituteRich CountriesCountries Of The WorldLazarus Author:Dorothy Day
“Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant.” ThinkingCountryHardReasonYoungSleepClubsManagersGiantsBirmingham Author:David Dunn
“You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.” WayCountryHardHelpingUseStarsShadowSouthGoldenBridgesGatesYankeesJointsCablesSunnyBrooklynCapitolHamburgersPentagonBurgersDixieBrooklyn Bridge Author:Charles Kuralt
“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLooksRealCountrySometimesHardViewsConcernDoctorsPoint Of ViewLawyerTiesProfessorsAggressiveBowsWornMagicianHintsIntellectualismOld WorldBroadcastingDevoteeAdherenceAcumenBow TieIconoclasm Author:Warren St. John
“I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldTryingCountryHardPhilosophyResponsibilityHard WorkVotePerseveranceConservativePreparationGod LoveAdvisePersonal ResponsibilityThink For YourselfPerseverance In Love Author:David A. Clarke, Jr
“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.” IfsCountryHardAgeGivenDifficultAmountChineseTransitionNew ThingsBack And ForthKindergartenPivotalLearning NewLearning New Things Author:Lucy Liu
“Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.” CountryHardShowsPrinciplesJudgingConscienceFollowingSentencesTrialsPassingPassingsCardsOur CountryPatrioticPassing Out Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.” WorldWayHumansHas BeensMadeCountryHardMotherRaceKnownDestinyDoubtHuman NatureAccomplishGreat ThingsOur CountrySchemesNativity Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes” ThinkingLooksLittlesCountryHardRealityLinesMistakeBreakOur CountryFistsProfileClinic Author:Ani DiFranco
“It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.” PeopleGivingCountryHardFatherBornRecordsGiving UpSacredMythCollectionsMistakenFables Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.” PeopleNeedsMadeStillsCountryHardHelpingHandsRealityYoungStrongPoorUnitedEffortSituationGenerationsHard WorkPeriodsIdealsChinaDecadesEstablishmentTranslateSocialistProsperousShort TimeYounger GenerationPoor CountriesIdeal Society Author:Mao Zedong
“It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.” GivingCountryHardGiving UpWeaponsBusyDevelopingOther Countries Author:John F. Kerry
“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.” ThinkingStillsCountryHardProblemPoliticalMillionsGroupsMissingMovementHard WorkKeysElementsOrganizationGreenEntrepreneurEnvironmentalInspiredTrackProfitLawyerDespiteOur CountryGlobal WarmingSustainabilityEngineersEconomistInvolvementLobbyistsForward ThinkingPolitical Involvement Author:Bill McKibben
“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.” IfsThinkingMayCountryHardPartyDangerFoolReturnStandingMajorityConservativeOutcomesParadiseLabourAlliesPersist Author:Austen Chamberlain
“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldTwoCountryHardStatesBigsOrderWinningSidesUnitedResultsUnited StatesHard WorkTypeBenefitsChinaBoth SidesTwo SidesWin WinTwo Countries Author:Xi Jinping
“I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!” IfsStillsCountryHardMy OwnModernHavensIndustryRapMusic IndustryMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Amy Weber
“And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.” MadeCountryHardBroadcasting Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“All these freshmen have come in here and worked hard from the beginning. I can't say enough good things about them. They were the No. 1 recruiting class in the country and they're confidant. They know they are the best. That doesn't mean they slack off. They work really hard. Now it's time to go out there and compete.” KnowsMeanI CanCountryHardEnoughClassGood ThingsTigersFreshmanLsuConfidant Author:Alex Bregman
“I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You can march to your own beat. It's so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.” ThinkingWayCountrySometimesHardStarsResponsibilityMassBeatsPopsOur CountryMarchConformityBe YouPop Stars Author:Adam Lambert
“The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.” TryingRealCountryHardShowsTogetherDragGears Author:Andrew Bird
“We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.” CountryHardProblemDecisionClassMiddlePressureBudgetsMiddle ClassPrioritizeDecisions We MakeHard Decision Author:David B. Axelrod